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Thread #50942   Message #774168
Posted By: Dave Bryant
30-Aug-02 - 07:37 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Menin Gate (Les Sullivan)
Subject: Les Sullivan's 'Menin Gate' song
Does anyone have the words to Les Sullivan's wonderful song about the Sailors who fought in the trenches in WW1. It has a chorus which goes something like:

I was a sailor barely nine(?)teen,
I felt so far from the sea.
They play a bugle each night at eight,
For people like me at the old Menin Gate.

I know Les was going to put it on a record - any news if it has been released yet ?